51.   Nearly all automobile tire companies and most big semiconductor companies have shifted to the new schedules.

52.   Most U.S. semiconductor companies will report higher third-quarter earnings, bolstered by surging sales of personal computers and electronic devices.

53.   NEC Corp. will set up a joint-venture semiconductor assembly company in Indonesia to help meet surging demand for chips in Asian markets.

54.   Ned Collins, head of equity trading at Daiwa Securities America, said shares of semiconductor companies could rise for a second week.

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56.   Now what remains to be seen is whether his prediction that semiconductor companies are in for a disappointing year will come true.

57.   Now that semiconductor companies have hit the one-gigahertz mark, is it time to throw away your old processor and upgrade?

58.   No change in the fundamentals of the semiconductor industry companies explains the slide, analysts said.

59.   Of course, semiconductor equipment companies do sell a lot of equipment to Korean and Japanese semiconductor manufacturers.

60.   On the high-tech front, shares in semiconductor companies rose after Robertson Stephens Inc. upgraded its rating on giant chipmaker Intel Corp.